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Does Your Association Have a Growth Mindset?
July 26, 2021Are you thinking about your goals for next year? I challenge you to consider cha ...
The Skill of the Year for 2021 Is Modeling
July 26, 2021If the word of the year for 2021 (my last post) is intentional, then the skill f ...
Will Your Workplace Be the Same When You Return?
July 22, 2021As we think about getting back to “normal” at work, what will we discover ...
Introducing DISC for improving your team’s culture
July 20, 2021Are you familiar with the benefits of workstyle and behavioral assessments? Rece ...
The Word of the Year for 2021 Is “Intentional”
July 15, 2021This has been coming up over and over again in my conversations with clients and ...
14 Ways to Engage Underperforming Team Members
July 6, 2021In Washington, D.C., after a president is re-elected, an unwritten tradition kic ...
Our Coaching Program is Now Available for Small-Staff Associations
July 2, 2021By now you are probably aware of the culture-driven performance coaching program ...
Culture Decisions for Returning (or Not!) to the Workplace
July 1, 2021Make an informed decision about what your office will look like post-COVID Are y ...
What Does a System of Accountability Look Like?
June 30, 2021In a recent post I offered up what I think is a better definition of accountabil ...
What is the purpose of culture data?
June 25, 2021That question is not quite as simple as it sounds. At a high level, most would p ...
How Do You Describe Your Culture To Prospective Employees?
June 21, 2021How would you describe your workplace culture to a promising prospective employe ...
Who Administers Anesthesia Today? The Key to Great Team Decisions
June 18, 2021Some teams make decisions very quickly. Surgical teams, for example, never ask, ...
6 Culture Assessments That Can Change Your Organization
June 16, 2021Toxic culture can kill your business. It can increase employee churn, wreck merg ...
Work @ Life: Figuring Yourself Out
June 14, 2021Have you found yourself reflecting more about your life since the pandemic start ...
How Do You Sustain Culture Change?
June 10, 2021This is probably one of the biggest fears among leaders when it comes to culture ...
[NEW WHITE PAPER!] The No B.S. Guide to Digital Transformation
June 8, 2021I am SO excited to announce that my latest white paper is out! And no surprise ...
Stop Treating “Return to the Workplace” as Only a Logistical Puzzle
June 4, 2021One of the benefits of being part of the Blue Cypress “family” of companies ...
Stop Waiting for Organizational Conflict to Get Better
June 1, 2021When the pandemic first started, one of my HR colleagues noted that the “prick ...
Stop Doing Engagement Surveys
May 27, 2021When we set out last year to write The Non-Obvious Guide to Employee Engagement, ...
Why Micromanagement is Tanking Your Association
May 25, 2021Micromanagement is sometimes a gut reaction of people who are meticulous leaders ...
The PROPEL SYSTEM of Culture-Driven Performance
May 23, 2021Our new coaching program is unique because it is rooted in a comprehensive syste ...
What Does RACI Stand For?
May 21, 2021The work of every organization can boil down to one thing: making decisions. Dec ...
Announcing Season 2 of Work @ Life: Combating The First Female Recession
May 19, 2021We are super excited to announce Season 2 of our popular livestream Work @ Life ...
The Hidden Cost Of Our New-Found Agility
May 18, 2021This post was written by Jamie Notter and originally appeared on Forbes.com. Lo ...
Get Ready for What’s Next with a Growth Mindset
May 14, 2021Imagine you could go back to 2019 and draw a line across the middle of a blank p ...
Are Strategic Plans Still Useful for Associations?
May 13, 2021When the pandemic disrupted your association’s work last year, did you immedia ...
ICYMI – What is Culture Design and Why Do You Need It? [RECORDING]
May 10, 2021As the saying goes, you either have a culture by design or a culture by default. ...
What Is Strategic Line of Sight (and Why Does It Matter)?
May 7, 2021Everyone knows that strategic planning has failed when you create a beautiful bi ...
Culture Analytics – From Traditionalist to Futurist
May 4, 2021This article contains information about the future-of-work spectrum as measur ...
Uncover Association Culture with Savvy Interview Questions
May 3, 2021There’s a moment in most job interviews when the hiring manager will ask you i ...
10 Cool Tools to Keep Your Association Aligned
April 30, 2021Software solutions—even for association alignment—are everywhere. By some es ...
A Better Definition of Accountability in the Workplace
April 28, 2021Please don’t google “definition of accountability in the workplace.” I jus ...
How to make SMART goals like a pro!
April 26, 2021All organizations know that effort without intention would be a rocky foundati ...
3 Reasons Why Internal Conflict Needs Your Attention
April 23, 2021When I tell people that my background is in the field of conflict resolution and ...
Don’t Make This Management Retreat Mistake
April 21, 2021I was talking with a colleague the other day who said that in her experience, ma ...
The Perfect Culture Fit
April 18, 2021Everybody makes hiring mistakes. According to Psychology Today, 33 percent of ne ...
Do you know what your eNPS score is?
April 15, 2021Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) is gaining in popularity as an important work ...
What Is Culture Design?
April 13, 2021As the saying goes, you either have a culture by design or a culture by default. ...
Start Planning Your Senior Management Retreat
April 12, 2021I don’t want to jinx it, but it looks like enough of us will be vaccinated in ...
Why Leaders Need Culture-Based Management
April 8, 2021A colleague asked me a great question the other day: What’s the biggest thing ...
8 Wellness Initiatives that Work
April 7, 2021Do your employees come to work when they’re sick—even if they have available ...
Workcation vs Full Unplug – What’s Your Vacation Style?
April 5, 2021Every Tuesday, PROPEL’s co-founder Maddie Grant joins QuestionPro’s Sanja Li ...
Handling Pandemic Fatigue As We Move Forward
April 1, 2021I recently did a webinar for Commonwealth Payroll and HR on “Helping Employees ...
Why Your Strategic Plan Will Probably Fail
March 30, 2021When the pandemic hit last year and forced us all to rethink everything we do, ...
Vulnerability in the Workplace
March 29, 2021Every Tuesday, PROPEL’s co-founder Maddie Grant joins QuestionPro’s Sanja Li ...
Small Staff Orgs Benefit from Culture Data Too
March 24, 2021When we were creating the WorkXO culture assessment, I had an assumption that ...
How to Find Your Hidden Culture Patterns [RECORDING]
March 23, 2021On March 19th, Jamie Notter, Co-founder and Culture Designer for PROPEL, gave a ...
A Deeper Look at Collaboration and Communication in the Workplace
March 22, 2021Every Tuesday, PROPEL’s co-founder Maddie Grant joins QuestionPro’s Sanja Li ...
To Thrive Post-Pandemic You Must Understand Leverage
March 17, 2021I had a call with a CEO the other day who summarized a leadership challenge that ...
Women In the Workplace
March 15, 2021Every Tuesday, PROPEL’s co-founder Maddie Grant joins QuestionPro’s Sanja Li ...
[WEBINAR] How to Find Your Hidden Culture Patterns
March 15, 2021Is it time to conduct a culture assessment, especially post-2020? Join us for a ...
Come See How Our Culture Assessment Works
March 11, 2021I’m doing a quick webcast next week where I will show you what the results of ...
What Value Are You Giving Your Team Members?
March 10, 2021I hear the word “value” in all sorts of association conversations lately: & ...
Do You Have Time to Talk ‘Work Life Balance’?
March 8, 2021Every Tuesday, PROPEL’s co-founder Maddie Grant joins QuestionPro’s Sanja Li ...
Is Now the Time to Reassess Your Culture?
March 5, 2021Assess your culture right now, and you will have the opportunity to change the t ...
Why You Have To Deal With Your Internal Conflict
March 4, 2021I started my career in the conflict resolution field, so conflict has always bee ...
Dollars and Sense: How Business Coaching Can Increase Your Profitability
March 2, 2021As we talk to prospective clients, we hear a common refrain. It goes so ...
10 Reasons Culture-Driven Business Coaching Might Not Be For You
February 26, 2021Introducing culture-driven business coaching to the association world has been ...
Managing in the Absence of Human Connection
February 24, 2021Almost a year ago, we all made a rapid shift to remote work. Looking back on it, ...
The Truth About What Drives Growth
February 22, 2021Most leaders I talk to are looking for growth. It doesn’t have to be exclusive ...
Why is 2% Better Than Last Year Enough?
February 19, 2021I feel like the default planning rubric in the association world is “last year ...
The #1 Secret Your Unhappy Employees Aren’t Telling You
February 18, 2021Your employees probably aren’t going to tell you they’re unhappy. And they m ...
The Bridge that Connects Strategy and Execution is a System
February 18, 2021Everyone knows that you need the following two things in order to be successful ...
18 Tech Resources to Help Your Association Work Smarter and Faster
February 16, 2021Are you working to change your culture but find yourself overwhelmed by all the ...
[WEBINAR] Overcoming Pandemic Fatigue
February 11, 2021[FREE WEBINAR] Overcoming Pandemic Fatigue A private discussion exclusively for ...
How To Build A Culture Of Innovation
February 11, 2021This post originally appeared on Forbes.com. I hear a lot of leaders lamenting ...
Culture Plays for Remote Work… and For Returning to the Office
February 9, 2021Still working remotely for the foreseeable future? Now that many of us have sett ...
So What is Going On with All the Acquisitions in the Association Space?
February 5, 2021If you’re in the association space, you might have noticed a wave of acquisiti ...
Roundup – What the Ten Rockefeller Habits Could Mean for Associations
February 3, 2021Roundup – What the Ten Rockefeller Habits Could Mean for Associations Ph ...
How important is mindfulness to you as a leader?
February 1, 2021Mindfulness, defined by Meico Whitlock as “the mental state of focusing ...
Performance Transparency: The Path to Progress
January 25, 2021Part 11 of a 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for Associations. If ...
Setting Measurable Goals for Individual Engagement and Accountability
January 21, 2021Part 10 of a 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for Associations. We ...
Business Coaching, Executive Coaching, Leadership Coaching: What’s the Difference?
January 19, 2021A lot of people have very specific interpretations of what “coaching” means ...
Digital Transformation Is Not What You Think It Is
January 14, 2021This post originally appeared on Forbes.com. You know a term has hit buzzword s ...
Can Your Entire Team Articulate These 4 Strategy Components?
January 12, 2021Part 9 of a 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for Associations. When ...
2021 Is the Year to Get Your System In Place
January 8, 2021This is not another “2020 was a crazy hard year” post. 2020 was definitely c ...
Core Values and Purpose are Alive
January 5, 2021Part 8 of an 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for Associations. Ima ...
Getting Member Feedback and Using It Well
January 3, 2021Part 7 of an 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for Associations. If ...
Input and Opportunity for Everyone
December 23, 2020Part 6 of an 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for associations. A ...
Accountability in Every Action
December 15, 2020Part 5 of an 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for associations. A ...
Communication Rhythm Moves Information Quickly
December 15, 2020Part 4 of an 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for associations. D ...
Why You Need Culture Management
December 10, 2020This article was written by Jamie Notter for Forbes.com – the original c ...
Creating Meaningful Goals That Actually Matter
December 8, 2020Part 3 of an 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for associations. &# ...
Leadership Team Feeling Divided? Get Them on the Same Page
December 4, 2020Part 2 of an 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for associations R ...
If You Don’t Know What the Rockefeller Habits Mean for Associations, You Should
December 1, 2020Part 1 of an 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for associations &nb ...
The Culture You Have Now is Not What It Was Pre-Pandemic
October 9, 2020A lot of organizations are feeling perhaps a slight bit of relief that they’ve ...
What I Learned From 1.15 Million Culture Data Points
April 20, 2020I started March of 2020 bracing myself for a three-month gauntlet of travel to c ...
The Secret To Culture Change is Quite Boring
March 15, 2020You know how sometimes you get this image in your head of how hard or painful so ...
Millennials Define Engagement Differently
February 17, 2020One of the participants in my Managing Generational Diversity training course on ...
Stop Trying to Fix Employee Engagement
February 8, 2020I think a lot of people focus on improving employee engagement because they want ...
Dealing with Subcultures in your Workplace
January 20, 2020One of the paradoxes of culture is that they are simultaneously centralized and ...
Innovate Your Strategy
January 8, 2020For a project I’m working on, I dug out my old copy of Blue Ocean Strategy. I ...
